While I've explored different genres and different systems over the years I always come back to fantasy and some version of D&D. (Probably a combination of nostalgia, as well as the game's familiarity and what I'd call its arguable superiority, and my love of fantasy fiction.)
I'd be quite interested to see just how many table-top role-playing games others do play or have played other than 5th ed.
(This can include other editions of the world's most famous fantasy table-top role-playing game. But not board games like Talisman, Arkham Horror, or HeroQuest or single-player role-playing gamebooks.)
Games I've played other than 5th ed. include Basic D&D and the 1st., 2nd., and 3rd. eds. of the game, Castles & Crusades, Old-School Essentials, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, The Burning Wheel, Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Dreaming, Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of Esteren, and Cyberpunk 2020.
This doesn't include bite-size exposure to games through one-shots or games that are not or not yet published.
Roughly in Chronological Order, basically they seemed to clump or creep through clusters of three at any given time, with some leap frogging back and forth:
D&D Red Box
Star Frontiers
Gamma World
AD&D
Twilight: 2000
Mechwarrior RPG
GURPS Autoduel and then GURPS bunch of stuff but leaned toward modern/high/future tech
Robotech (Palladium)
TMNT/After the Bomb
Cyberpunk (Black Box 2013 setting)
AD&D 2e
WEG Star Wars
Cyberpunk 2020
Aliens (Leading Edge Games, Phoenix Command lite basically)
Mekton (think that was 2.0 version)
WEG/d6 Star Wars 2nd Edition
Chill
weird period where there were these overlapping Call of Cthulhu and Cyberpunk products from largely 3rd party presses, no idea what if any specific of edition of CoC, but was Cyberpunk 2020
Dark Conspiracy
Traveller (I forget which edition, but it wasn't popular among the old school ones, came after MegaTraveller and used the 2nd edition Twilight 2000 rules)
Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Mage the Ascension and the Highlander bootleg game that drew from Mage mechanics
D&D 5e
FFG Star Wars (all three)
d6 Star Wars REUP (though honestly pair that down to something closer to WEGd6 2nd Edition)
Delta Green
Alien
Twilight: 2000
Bladerunner
Mongoose Traveller
Star Trek Adventures (played sorta in parallel with Traveller, party's characters are sorta built with other game characters in mind, and it's this odd thing where the PCs are more "liberated" under the Imperium than as members of Starfleet).
Magical Kitties Save the Day
Things I haven't played or haven't really played outside demos but waiting to play sometime having done enough reading through it:
Cy_Borg
Kult: Divinity Lost
Blades in the Dark
Forbidden Lands
Current edition Call of Cthulhu
GenLab Alpha (mixed with the rest of the Mutant YZE games)
Mork_Borg
Something Is Wrong Here
Over the Edge
Paranoia
Terminator
Not sure if I'd go for the official Transformers TTRPG or something like Lancer, but I'd love to play a Transformers game that honors Simon Furman's deepest cosmology (negative universe, Decepticons may have had good reason to rebel, etc. Quintessons)
Back to RPGs after MANY years. Looking at my bookshelf: These are all old versions except 5E. DND 2E (now 5E), ghostbusters, toon, paranoia, star wars, marvel, farscape (printed all the online content).
Not owned: played V&V and Star trek once or twice. Had to cancel on a VTM LARP.
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While I've explored different genres and different systems over the years I always come back to fantasy and some version of D&D. (Probably a combination of nostalgia, as well as the game's familiarity and what I'd call its arguable superiority, and my love of fantasy fiction.)
I'd be quite interested to see just how many table-top role-playing games others do play or have played other than 5th ed.
(This can include other editions of the world's most famous fantasy table-top role-playing game. But not board games like Talisman, Arkham Horror, or HeroQuest or single-player role-playing gamebooks.)
Games I've played other than 5th ed. include Basic D&D and the 1st., 2nd., and 3rd. eds. of the game, Castles & Crusades, Old-School Essentials, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, The Burning Wheel, Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Dreaming, Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of Esteren, and Cyberpunk 2020.
This doesn't include bite-size exposure to games through one-shots or games that are not or not yet published.
Roughly in Chronological Order, basically they seemed to clump or creep through clusters of three at any given time, with some leap frogging back and forth:
Things I haven't played or haven't really played outside demos but waiting to play sometime having done enough reading through it:
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Back to RPGs after MANY years. Looking at my bookshelf: These are all old versions except 5E. DND 2E (now 5E), ghostbusters, toon, paranoia, star wars, marvel, farscape (printed all the online content).
Not owned: played V&V and Star trek once or twice. Had to cancel on a VTM LARP.
Food, Scifi/fantasy, anime, DND 5E and OSR geek.